Resolutions: You Do It

Happy 2007!

New Year's Eve was pretty chill for us. We went to a couple parties and hung out with some good friends. We did not attend the giant robot dance party, where a majority of the people were, but that was okay. We'd just had a very strange day, mostly made up of us getting stuck at my parents' house for seven hours when my dad accidentally took our car keys with him to the Bronco game. We tried to take their minivan, but it was parked in the garage in front of our car and though we tried many types of driving forward and backwards and angling the tires this way and the other way, we could not make the physics work. And so while we had plans for shopping and cooking and showering and relaxing, we ended up hanging out with my uncle and two cousins who were in the middle of Giant Family Feud. And not the kind with Louie Anderson and humorous responses to "Things that wake you up in the morning." The kind with yelling and crying and hurt feelings and locked doors. Sooo....that was fun! Everything worked itself out, but we were physically and emotionally drained. Vodka sodas with Carson Daly and a few friends was the perfect night for me.

I've thought about resolutions for this year, took in your suggestions, and was most impressed with Sam's idea that I have other people come up with resolutions for me. She suggested that I pick a category and have you guys pick the specific challenge for a given month, but I would like to go one step further and give you guys free reign. Here's how it will work: each month, I will complete a different challenge put forth by one of you. The challenge can be pretty much anything, as long as it adheres to a few guidelines:

Nothing
--illegal
--expensive
--morally uncomfortable (e.g., eating meat, tripping old people)

The challenge does not have to take a month to complete, but can't take longer. It could be a one-time thing, like creating an art project out of 20 found objects or entering a bake-off, or a month-long thing, like posting a daily picture of my cats (please don't make me post pictures of cats for a month). Mostly, it should be entertaining, interesting, and/or challenging. Hopefully all three.

If you're interested in participating in Resolution Challenge 2007, you can email me at lizworking AT gmail DOT com. Don't tell me what your idea is, just let me know you'd like in. I'll pick a different person for each month, and as the 1st of that month approaches, I'll contact that person and he or she can lay down the challenge. Throughout the month I'll, of course, write about the challenge and give updates. Maybe at the end of the year, if this idea proves to be any good, I'll give away prizes for the best challenge givers.

We're already on January, so I'll need someone quick if we want to get started. If you have a month preference, you can let me know, but otherwise the month assignments will be random.

I'm completing my 52 Books in 52 Weeks list, which I'll post later in the month. Why did you guys let me read The Memory Keeper's Daughter? What a terrible way to end out the year. I spent the whole second half of the book moaning to J, "Why isn't it over yet? Gaaaaah."